I have determined that freeware means you are free to use up all your free time trying to tweak things. Seriously though, both TP and HammerSkin are incredible work. I continue to be amazed by the extensive features of this product. Of course I am having to relearn my programming skills to take advantage of everything.
I am on v 0.11 and hammerskin 1.05.6. I am running into a few issues mostly in the weather setup. I am not sure if they are TP issues or HS issues so I am posting in the general area for help.
1. suntime - I am getting negative values for one of my cities. I tried to follow the advice in this thread http://forums.jhollin1138.com/viewtopic.php?t=1874 . I make the changes to the skin.txt but the values then do not show. I downloaded the exe on the page but could not seem to get it to execute to add the values to the registry on the device.
2. F vs. C - I have cities on two continents. When I pull down the weather data for example for Atlanta and Santiago, both pull down correctly (english and metric respectively). But when showing on the main weather page on HS, they all show with F. So while the data for Santiago is in metric it still shows with an F instead of a C after the numeric data.
3. Updates - Weather information, and RSS for that matter, do not seem to be updating ever 60 minutes like they are suppose to.
4. CF Card - On the system info page of HS, it is showing memory for a CF card and I do not have one installed. Any idea where it might be getting the data from? It does not seem to equate to any of my devices and all the other settings work fine.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
MJ
Quote from: MJI have determined that freeware means you are free to use up all your free time trying to tweak things.
This is not allways the case, but TodayPlus is the only plugin, that is
customizable in that way, so if you want to customize it, you have to learn many things :wink:
Quote1. suntime - I am getting negative values for one of my cities. I tried to follow the advice in this thread http://forums.jhollin1138.com/viewtopic.php?t=1874 . I make the changes to the skin.txt but the values then do not show. I downloaded the exe on the page but could not seem to get it to execute to add the values to the registry on the device.
Does that mean, the exe doesn't run ? If so, what OS do you have on your PPC (it is not compiled for use with PPC2002)
Quote2. F vs. C - I have cities on two continents. When I pull down the weather data for example for Atlanta and Santiago, both pull down correctly (english and metric respectively). But when showing on the main weather page on HS, they all show with F. So while the data for Santiago is in metric it still shows with an F instead of a C after the numeric data.
The F for Fahrenheit is only a part of the skintext. So if you use F and C together, it does not fit in the skin.
Quote3. Updates - Weather information, and RSS for that matter, do not seem to be updating ever 60 minutes like they are suppose to.
The update-time in the config.exe does not mean, that it refreshes automatically. It means, that a refresh is done, when the time has passed.
And the update-process only starts, if there is anything to synch. If ActiveSync
doesn't do anything, the updateprocess does not start. You have to push the
Actualisation-Button manually.
Quote4. CF Card - On the system info page of HS, it is showing memory for a CF card and I do not have one installed. Any idea where it might be getting the data from? It does not seem to equate to any of my devices and all the other settings work fine.
The paths of what storage is shown, is taken from the config.exe under
storage. If you don't have a CF-Card it takes what you've put in there.
Hope, I could get me clear, cause my English is not good enough to answer
such long questions ...
Regards Broesel
Quote from: BroeselHope, I could get me clear, cause my English is not good enough to answer
such long questions ...
You sure seem to do a good job anyway ! ! :D
1. I am running PPC2003. When I try to execute the program it just does not seem to do anything. Is there anyway to add the registry keys manually?
4. I have two storage items it reads correctly. Built in storage and a SD card. There is no other, yet a value is there for a CF card that is why I was trying to determine what it might be pulling the value from since it does not match any of the others.
Quote from: MJ1. I am running PPC2003. When I try to execute the program it just does not seem to do anything. Is there anyway to add the registry keys manually?
The Prog does not show anything, when executing. But it normally writes
the registry-keys as described. Did you take a look in the registry with
a registry-editor, to be sure, there are no keys ?
Quote4. I have two storage items it reads correctly. Built in storage and a SD card. There is no other, yet a value is there for a CF card that is why I was trying to determine what it might be pulling the value from since it does not match any of the others.
Don't know, what TodayPlus shows as space, if you have not defined a
storage, but if you don't need the code for CF-card, you can comment out
the skincode:
// CF Card==========================================
image,10,211,cf.png,t
image,40,215,meters_background.png,t
storage,3,bar,42,215,52,13,gradient_storage gradient.png
image,40,215,meters.png,t
imagebutton,40,215,Metersbutton.png,tr,-1,0,%apps-6-6-highlight
text,68,203,CF Card,c
storage,3,total,68,228,, MB,c
text,97,208,Used: ,l
storage,3,used,179,208,, MB,r
storage,3,usedpercent,208,208,/,%,r,%.0f
text,97,221,Free: ,l
storage,3,free,179,221,, MB,r
storage,3,freepercent,208,221,/,%,r,%.0fPrefix every line of that code with // and you won't see the CF-Card
show up in the skin.
Regards Broesel
I have looked all through the TP regsitry entry and see no entries along the lines of
City1Sunrise, City1Sunset and City1DayLength
Thanks for the thought of commenting out the CF section. At this point I am also curious what it is seeing since I don't have any CF memeory loaded. Is that data pulled out of the registry?
Quote from: MJI have looked all through the TP regsitry entry and see no entries along the lines of
City1Sunrise, City1Sunset and City1DayLength
Well, I hope you have understood, that you have to modify the weather-feed
like uk_skinner and eemond described in this thread:
http://forums.jhollin1138.com/viewtopic.php?t=1763
If you don't do that, you won't have the new parameters
(this.swSunrise, this.swSunset and this.swDayLength) in your cityx.txt.
(See this thread:http://forums.jhollin1138.com/viewtopic.php?t=1874)
And the suntime.exe can't write any values to the registry then.
QuoteThanks for the thought of commenting out the CF section. At this point I am also curious what it is seeing since I don't have any CF memeory loaded. Is that data pulled out of the registry?
As I stated before, I don't know, what values are taken, if you don't
put a value for that storage in the config.exe
Regards Broesel
I had not updated the weather feed, but I have now and the three new fields are in my cityx.txt. However, Suntime.exe still does not modify my registry with any new fields, once again unless I am looking in the wrong place.
Is there any way to enter the keys manually?
Quote from: MJI had not updated the weather feed, but I have now and the three new fields are in my cityx.txt. However, Suntime.exe still does not modify my registry with any new fields, once again unless I am looking in the wrong place.
Is there any way to enter the keys manually?
The keys are in :HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SRSSoft\TodayPlus\text
(see attached screenshot)
You can enter them manually with a registry-editor, but it will not help you
(you can even test the values in the skin)
If you have some other questions to the suntime.exe, try to ask in this thread:
http://forums.jhollin1138.com/viewtopic.php?t=1874
Maybe eemond will read it and can help you better than I can.
Regards Broesel